With the development of scientific technology and TCFL, the Chinese language textbook has to meet the needs of the students on self-study basis or multi-media teaching, except the traditional classroom teaching. The Standard Chinese Course is the one as it requires.
A textbook is mostly compiled based on a certain teaching theory. Learned from various previous TCFL textbooks, integration of structure, situation and function is the principle adopted in compiling the Standard Chinese Course. The target is to make the learners have a good command of Chinese language and communicate in Chinese for daily use.
The Standard Chinese Course on Phonetics is with emphasis on initials, finals and tones. Syllable teaching is stressed, sandhi teaching is ignored for the learners to lay a stable foundation of Chinese phonetics. Some basic expressions for daily use are compiled for the learners to consolidate what they have learnt.
The Standard Chinese Course on Conversation (Ⅰ,Ⅱ) is with emphasis on the grammar teaching. Two or three grammatical items are selected in each lesson and practiced in simulated environments related to the appropriate topics. The dramatis personae remain the same through all the conversations. The grammar items are categorized as follows:
Lesson 1 to 10 is the basic sentence patterns;
Lesson 11 to 20 is all kinds of complements and tenses;
Lesson 21 to 30 is the special sentence structures.
Each lesson consists of seven parts: the introduction (of the relevant characters or scenes), text (conversation), new words, key structures (parallel with the grammatical points and structures involved in the lesson), grammar, notes (for cultural background information, difficult words and structures), and exercises.
The Standard Chinese Course on Phonetics and Conversation included: the initials and finals and more than 300 commonly-used syllables, about 60 primary and 70 secondary grammatical items, 700 commonly-used Chinese characters and 1200 words and expressions.
Having finished the Standard Chinese Course on Phonetics and Conversation, learners are supposed to be able to conduct the basic communication in their daily life.
The Standard Chinese Course on Reading (Ⅰ,Ⅱ) has been compiled based on the second level of grammar and vocabulary of HSK syllabus. And the texts have a wide range of topics, such as family, marriage, population, health, geography, history, culture, science and technology, etc. And the dramatis personae remain the same through the entire textbook, which is composed of seven parts: texts, new words, notes, usage of words, grammar, reading and exercises. More than 100 grammatical items and 2200 new words (about 700 new words are from the reading texts) are included.
Having finished Standard Chinese Course on Reading (Ⅰ,Ⅱ), learners are expected to reach the intermediate level of HSK in their listening, speaking, reading and writing.
In the course of compiling this book, two appraisal meetings were held, during which the experts had given us both favorable comments and suggestions. This is the improved version. We extend our heartfelt thanks to their comments and suggestions, and your further comments are always welcome.